Westouter!

Today we went with our church to Westouter to spend a day all together in nature. It really was a blessed sabbath.

Happy sabbath!

"Like clay in the hands of the potter, so are you in My hand." Jeremiah 18:6

A toad on our road...

Tonight my dad called me... he had found a toad in our garden... Well, I never had seen one in our garden before, so I had to take a picture. Well, who knows, maybe it was my hidden prince,... hahaha, nope I didn't want to find out, tooooo ugly to kiss. ;)

Blessed day!

We really had a blessed day last sabbath with our church. The weather was pretty nice and after the service we went out for a beautiful walk. Enjoy the pictures.

Holiday!

Last friday we had a holiday here in Belgium. The catholics celebrate that Maria went to heaven on august 15. Although I don't believe that at all, it was very nice to have a free day. I drove to the Netherlands to meet Gert-Jan, a friend of mine. After lunch, which he had made, we had some study about the sabbath issue. I also got to meet Francis, a friend of him that came over from Uganda. We ended the day at Bergen-op-zoom, where we ate out in a restaurant at a nice pretty square.

birthdays...

Last week, Elina and Jonas had their birthdayparty. Here some pictures to enjoy...

And the answer is.....

Well, I didn't get any wrong answers on one of my previous post, where I was to find in the picture. Yeps, indeed I'm the 2nd one from the left on top! You all did a good job guys or it just might have been to easy ;) , and yeps, Klaas is standing just below of me.

God bless
Veerle

Sweden

I had a nice time in Sweden. Together with Rianne and Leo I went to a campmeeting in Stenshult. I really heard some interesting things over there. I also enjoyed the beautiful nature. Enjoyed the walks, the sheep, the healthy food, the talks,the new people, ... an ideal break during the workyear.

God bless

Veerle

TMTA - Nostalgie

My entry for TMTA this week:

Yevgueni

Lately the group Yevgueni is becoming pretty popular in Belgium. The neat thing about this group is that the singer originates from my town. Well, I can even tell more... Klaas Delrue (the singer) used to be in my classroom from kindergarten untill the age of 12. (9 years). I even have some old slides from when he was on one of my birthdayparties... will have to scan those in once and show them. Well for now I page a picture from when we were 10-11 years. Can you find him? And what about finding me? Anyone an idea... curious for your comments...

little book for Elina

I finished an UFO (UnFinished Object). This little book I started once ages ago... now I finished it. Elina, my little niece of 7 will receive it. I'm sure she will be glad with it. I just can tell the difference which pages I scrapped in the beginning of my scraphistory, and the ones I did scrap now, but she won't even notice.

Rianne in Belgium

Last weekend was a very nice one. After the duoflight from Rien, Rianne came to spend the week-end with me! Fridayevening we didn't do much anymore, since she arrived late.
Saturday, we went to church. There was actually a potluck for Marie-Josée that would turn 80 on sunday, but unfortunatly she was sick. We still had the potluck and a very nice pie. And of course we sang for Rien his birthday and for Elina's that was to come tuesday. After some socialising we went out for a walk. Afterwards I took Rianne to the Gavers, a little place of nature near Kortrijk. In the evening we only talked and talked and talked and talked... bla bla bla...

Sundayafternoon we went to Brugge, my favorite city. I showed her around in the city and we did end up in the chocolate restaurant. We had some ice chocolate, a yummy thing with ice and whip cream, and a delicious choclate fondue with fresh fruit... yummmmmmmmy! Our trip ended in the craftshop near our home. I had showed her some of my stampstuff, and Rianne seems to like that, maybe I gave her the stampvirus... who knows! Anyways, we sure had a blessed time together.

Happy birthday to Rien!

Rien celebrated his 26th birthday last saturday, but he got a big surprise a day earlier. Huguette had organised a duo jump out of a plane for him. All friends, family and churchmembers were invited. Also Vincent received (he had his birthday a week earlier) this surprise. Afterwards everyone was invited to a reception for Rien his birthday. A day he will never forget.

Award

I got this award from Wendy. Thank you very much for giving this one to me, Wendy, it's kinda cool!

There are some rules for this award.

1. The winner can use the logo.

2. You have to make a link to the blog of the person from whom you got the award.

3. Send the award to 7 other people that have a blog and that are remarkable due to their themes, designs, etc...

4. Place the links of those blogs on your blog.

5. Leave a comment on those blogs.

Here are my 7 blogs:

Katz

Sandy

Myriame

Christine

Angelina

Linda

Ilse

Canvas time

Those 2 I made for a good friend of mine. She asked me to blur out the faces of her kids, which I did. They will be decorating 2 bedrooms... I really like that idea! The are comming your way D!

God blesss

Veerle

visiting Julia

She was born on june 16, and we did visit her last saturday.... sweet little Julia. (to pronounce like Dutchmen do, not like Belgians do). Therefore we drove to Heverlee, to Ben and Nadine's new place. Since Julia is a baby that has a Dutch father and a Belgian mother, we were spoiled with habbits out of both countries. In the Netherlands they have a habbit to give "beschuit met muisjes" when a baby is born. That's a Dutch rusk where they put 1st butter on and then some sweet little candystuff, that tastes like aniseed. On the picture you see Huguette holding one. We also got chips, cause that's the Belgian tradition. We also have a tradition to give "doopsuiker" when the visitors leave. That's a kind of candy with chocolate inside. Visitors receive a nice little box or another cute item plenty with "doopsuiker". So we were spoiled with that as well. Nice to have parents from different countries, don't you think? Hahaha, no, but the main thing was that we could see that nice little wonder.

After our visit we went to a park in Heverlee, where there was a nice castle. We had brought our picknick. It was a quite a time ago since we had gonne somewhere with our little group, so we enjoyed it to the fullest, and I did brought my camera, so we needed to goof off a bit as well, like in the good old days.

flee market for ADRA

Last week-end, I did spend my time again at Rianne's place. Friday-evening I attended a biblestudy. On sabbath I went to church and in the afternoon, Wim Wiersema gave us a study more about adventism versus moslim relationships. After the study Rianne took me to the house where she grew up and spend her youth. Her brother Leo lives there, and we went all together for a walk, and did chat quite a bit afterwards, it was a very nice time.

Sunday, we drove direction Ossendrecht. I helped with the flee-market for ADRA. Almost all my books I brought to sell, got sold. So I was happy that I could help a little bit from my part with this nice project. All the money will go to a hospital that will be build in Ghana.

God bless

Veerle

happy sabbath

You are my hiding place.

You are my hiding place,

You always fill my heart

with songs of deliverance.

Whenever I am afraid,

I will trust in You.

I will trust in You.

Let the weak say I am strong

in the strength of my Lord.

I got some cd's from Rianne from the group Selah to listen too, I particulary like this one special well known song.

hup holland hup!

Last weekend I was in the Netherlands. I visited Rianne for the weekend. I got to know her at the youth for all weekend. Since then we mailed and chatted with one another, and when she invited me over last week, I didn't have to think twice.
After my work, I drove a big 2 hours before I arrived at her place. After souper, we went out for a walk. It was pretty interesting for me to see how patriotic they are in the Netherlands. Everywhere you could see orange. They had the football game(americans read: soccer) against France and you really could notice that everywhere. We are not used to that here in Belgium.
Saturday I went to her church in Gorinchem. In the afternoon we drove to Breda for a biblestudy. There I met some other people I know. After the study we were invited for a potluck at somebody's house. Leo, Rianne's brother took us there. It was a nice and blessed day. Sunday we visited a little zoo: "dierenpark de Oliemeulen". Some people and kids of her church joined. I really had a super week-end! Thank you Rianne!

And for the ones that would doubt, yeps it's a real spider in my hands!

God bless

Plufke